And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?

People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost

This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution's demands for structural flexibility sufficient to adapt substantive laws and institutions to rapidly changing social, economic, and technological conditions.

We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.